Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

Classic 3 poIld PI_CB, Roeli... W1. . . . st rllllr of tile day, To", (Ill) ••.,.." , ••es .tL s,," s-.. w'_. Is ~ Ito. by Ric MuDaDe, :also Honda mounted. JolIn aud Ric dldD't bave tile nee alIJ lD tIlemselves, tbouch. For tile lIrst 8 laps of tbeir 10 Jap maiD eftDt, CIdef GIIlbraith 011 a 125cc PR Special Iecl tile entire field as If beadedfor an. easywtn,,But on tile efghtb lap tile spluttered and tile Cbtef IIad lD _It to retain II tb1rd place f1DlsbJ. In tile 200cc cIass, lIrst place went lD DIm GaiDD OI1ll &adll. The 350cc event JooteC 11R lID easy win lor Tony Murphy on. his s_r-tast, self-tuned Bridgesllone. The only piece of equipment rtIDIIing in tbts class tbat could give iteompet1tionwasDonEmde's Yamaha, and Don uolortuDlltelybrokehis cbatD alter 1eadIIfg tile Urst Jap. Tony got. off his Brtdg.estone...bra.veJy bump-started II 500cc Norton Manx lor first overall in tile 500cc and ()pen class event, but bere ag:aJn Tony did not !lave Pbotos by Denn1s Gr"eeDe' WILLOW SPRINGS, C:al.Apr1l2"'l- Under Ideal coad1t1ons, tile ACA tb1rd ..titDIJ points road race ran otl witll some 150 GP aud ProdlJct1oa racers orbiting arotllld tile Wlllo. Springs course. Ouf- as - encme stlIDd1ng rider of tile day was UDQUeSt100ably Tony Murpby, winner of three first placeS: 50Cc Div.l, 350ce aDd 500Cc G.P. classes. He was ridlng a 50Cc SIllzuId!, 350ee Bridgestone anda 500Ce Norton MaIu. The lard luck story of tile day was Buddy Parriott witll three starts and no tlDisbes. Copped by a "sJiglLt. misblIp between Turns 1 and 2"." The Lightwe1gbt Production ra:ce was bigh11ghted by a terrific battle among Roger Wood, Steve G:aJbr:aJIb, Ray IDe Long and Bob Nelson. Nelson on his 175cc Kawasaki led laps 3 and 4, but 011 tile 7t1l lap on Turn 4 he left tbe course. Recovering from his lall, be was able lD speed up andl stlll!1n.lsb lourtll overall, second In his class, behind Jerry Zerni!tow. First overall and first in tbat ooe was Roger Wood (Brkigesllone). Seeond place went to Moe Conserrlere, who bad lought lorward. Steve G:aJbraitbbad cIa1lenged Rogers in tile lirst six. laps but Steve :also bad dilllculty getttDg. around Turn 4, left the course, went do_ bard but was not injored. The second' event of tile day IauDdIed w1mIer TOllY Murpby's wiIllniDg strl!ll1t. It was the 50ee Division 1. T!Ie l00Ce class lell- to DoIIl Emde's Hodaka. First ot'erall 1Il tile 125, 175 and 200cc G.P. eftDt, and w1nner of tile ~ eJasa was JolIn Grubb (Hooda). Jobn was lo1klwed it easy. Aller getttDg off to a slow start, be was boxed in beb1nd sewral bigger machines" Tony lound it partlcularly di1l1cult /l:etting around *34 Jerry Winter's Harley Dav1dsal. Pusbed lD open professtona.l event at !fie eod of tile· Jerry was eventually lorc:ed to the pitS witli a strained motorcycle. First in tile ()pen class was JolIn MeGU1ivray OIl his Triumph. The most ex.cltiDg pr 011 bcldrPferce aud Mc:LauebJ1n -.raJ tDnes. BUt tbe< se... t24) 1IcLa brave old eng1ne SOOl1 went atf SOIIlt and bad lD give 1lP tile chase. First overaHl was· Pierce, lo1low:ed by McLanpIin. Finat .race of the day was the tbriIl1Dc ~t produetlOll class. Riders bravely strode lD the s1arttDg grid, cbdr.... tbetr three cylinder _"". .5. First 0'll!l":a1l was Roland PqaIll 011 bts Triumph Trident, toDowedby DL.eDllmroo (one of tile last yeRr"S' c!Rmp!

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